US Patent Issued to RTX on May 26 for "Maintainable design for bearing compartment service line incorporating a grooved end" (Polish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,963, issued on May 26, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Maintainable design for bearing compartment service line incorporating a grooved end" was invented by Nicholas Daniel Gnitzcavich (Harwinton, Conn.), Thomas B. Avis (Manchester, Conn.), Krzysztof Tutka (Rzeszow, Poland), Aleksander Niemiec (Rzeszow, Poland) and Sebastian Majewski (Rzeszow, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a compressor section and a turbine section. The turbine section includes a static housing defining a bearing compartment, and the bearing compartment includes at least one bearing. A lubricant seal assembly is ad...